I consider myself very anti-gun. I don't really see any point for them honestly. This idea that an armed populace prevents the government in check is just stupid. No matter how nice your gun is if the military wanted you dead you would be. No gun stops a cruise missle, or a tank shell.

Anyway, I don't see how this is important to this discussion. Crazy people do crazy things. Just this week a man in China attacked a bunch of kids at a school with a knife! Should we ban those too? No we need a better system for helping those with mental illness not restrictions on more things. It is a sad commentary on the US that we almost always go for punishment and restriction rather than help and support as a way to address these kinds of tragedies.

Edited to be accurate.

“We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.”
― Pema Chödrön

My correction was rendered moot, though I'll say that I'm not comfortable brushing the acts of the mentally deranged under the sh*t Happens rug. Mental illness is far too varied and vast to make assumptions.

It's actually Newtown CT. I read today that since 1999 there have been 31 school shootings in the US and 14 in the rest of the world combined. I don't think this has really sunk in for me yet. I just keep reliving the lock-down drills my school did twice a year after Columbine.

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WASHINGTON—Following the fatal shooting this morning at a Connecticut elementary school that left at least 27 dead, including 20 small children, sources across the nation shook their heads, stifled a sob in their voices, and reported f*ck everything. Just f*ck it all to hell.

All of it, sources added.

“Well, I suppose we have to try to pick up the pieces and make some sort of sense of this tragedy and—you know what? F*ck it, I can’t do this,” said Connecticut resident Michael Zaleski, his remarks understandable given the circumstances, because, holy sh*t, what else can one say? “I’m sorry, but I can’t f*cking do this. Can you? Can anyone?”

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WASHINGTON—Following the fatal shooting this morning at a Connecticut elementary school that left at least 27 dead, including 20 small children, sources across the nation shook their heads, stifled a sob in their voices, and reported f*ck everything. Just f*ck it all to hell.

All of it, sources added.

“Well, I suppose we have to try to pick up the pieces and make some sort of sense of this tragedy and—you know what? F*ck it, I can’t do this,” said Connecticut resident Michael Zaleski, his remarks understandable given the circumstances, because, holy sh*t, what else can one say? “I’m sorry, but I can’t f*cking do this. Can you? Can anyone?”